The Handfasting (11 page)

“I just wanted to
make sure,” Emma said softly, raking her fingers through Gavin’s hair as she
held him against her.  Tears of happiness slipped down her cheeks as she held
her husband.

“Good.  I’d like
tae get on with the process of loving my wife,” Gavin said huskily, smiling
against Emma’s soft skin as he kissed the birthmark just below her ear.  “If
I’m no mistaken, ye’ve been waiting tae welcome me home properly?”

Emma giggled as
Gavin trailed kisses over the tops of her breasts where they peeked over the
neckline of her gown.

“Was it that
obvious?” she asked, laughing joyfully into his neck.

“Aye.  Ye could
hardly keep yer hands off of me!” he teased as he cupped her breast and nipped
at her through the fabric of her gown.

“I missed you so
much.  Make love to me, Gavin,” Emma said softly, raising his chin so that he
would meet her eyes.  The love that she saw in his green eyes assured her that
her precious husband really was home. 

Gavin pressed his
lips softly to hers, kissing her tenderly.  His lips arched gently over hers as
he tasted her and claimed her as his own once again.  Emma opened her mouth and
brushed her tongue against Gavin’s, relishing the familiar taste of his mouth. 
The kiss deepened and Emma threaded her fingers into Gavin’s hair as he claimed
her mouth thoroughly.

Never had Emma
felt so alive.  She wanted to kiss Gavin forever.  She wanted to lose herself
completely in his kiss, in his touch and surrender herself completely to her
husband.  He tasted so good.  She wanted him so much.

Gavin broke the
kiss and looked down at his beautiful wife.  Emma’s lips were ruddy from his
kisses and tears of happiness fell readily down her cheeks.  Never had she been
more beautiful to him than she was in this moment.  Gavin felt as though he had
finally arrived home after a most difficult, arduous journey.

“Can ye imagine
that we have a lifetime of this ahead of us?  A lifetime of loving each other?”
he asked joyously as supported his weight on his elbows and used his thumbs to
brush away Emma’s tears.

“I can’t wait,”
Emma said giddily as she smiled up at her husband.  “I never stopped loving
you,” she whispered as she looked intently into Gavin’s eyes.  She had missed
Gavin so much and yet she had loved him still.

“I ken that ye
didna and I thank ye for that,” Gavin said appreciatively. Nuzzling her neck
with his warm lips, Emma felt a surge of pleasure as he placed kisses over her
throat. He brought his lips to Emma’s and began the process of showing her just
how much he loved her with a kiss that threatened to shatter her very being.

His hand palmed
Emma’s breast through the fabric of her gown and his thumb brushed over her
nipple, teasing it to a taut peak beneath the fabric.

Emma moaned softly
and arched towards his touch.

“Let’s get this
off of ye,” Gavin said as he rolled Emma gently onto her side and began to tug
at the laces of her gown.  Emma assisted him in the removal of the garment and
tossed the mass of fabric onto the floor next to the bed.

Gavin shuddered with
pleasure as he looked at his naked wife, sprawled before him on his bed.  Emma
was breathtaking.  Her breasts were full and round.  Her pert nipples were tantalizing
as they stood erect with arousal.  His lips ached to suckle them.  His eyes
scanned down her belly to her narrow waist and the thatch of blonde curls that
shielded her femininity.  Gavin’s cock pulsed when he looked at her there.  He
wanted to bury himself inside of her and lose himself completely.  He wanted to
join with his lovely wife to know for sure that he was home, safe and whole.

Emma’s eyes were
misty with passion as she looked up at her husband.  She lay naked and completely
unashamed before him and she watched contently as his green eyes appraised her
body.  There was no shame between them, only love and desire.

Gavin reached out
slowly and brushed the back of his hand lightly over Emma’s cheek.  His hand
trailed over the sensitive skin of her neck down to her collarbone, where his
index finger traced the delicate bone.  Sliding lower still, his fingers
brushed over her right breast, causing Emma to inhale sharply with the arousing
sensation that his light touch brought.  Gavin palmed her breast gently and
then released her as he traced the line of her narrow waist.  His fingers
traveled lower still, brushing over the curls that shielded her womanhood.

“I missed ye sae
bloody much,” Gavin confessed as he looked down at his achingly precious wife. 
“I thought of ye every moment while I was away,” he said softly as he beheld
her. 

“I thought of
nearly nothing else besides how you were and if you were alive,” Emma answered
back.  “My life was so empty without you here.   I tried so hard to keep busy,
tried to move on as you had told me to, but Gavin, I couldn’t.  I loved you too
much,” she said, shaken by the power of her emotions.

“I think that
loving ye was what kept me alive.  I thought of ye during the worst times and
ye brought me hope,” Gavin said in a rough whisper, shaken by his dark
memories.

He needed Emma
now, needed to join with her to know that he was really whole, alive and home
safely.  He needed her strength now.

Emma shivered
deliciously as his fingers brushed over her skin, causing lightning to course
through her veins.  Gavin’s touch aroused her to the point of combustion. 

She reached up now
and helped her husband pull his linen shirt over his head.  The muscles of
Gavin’s chest were beautifully defined and Emma delighted in trailing her
fingers over his pectoral muscles and down the ripples of his taut abdominal
muscles.  Her fingers dipped beneath the waistband of Gavin’s kilt and she was
rewarded when Gavin closed his eyes and took in a shaky breath.  Emma bit her
lip as she watched her husband respond to her touch.

Gavin’s fingers
found hers and he squeezed her hands gently.  He rose from the bed and removed
his kilt.  Standing completely naked before his wife, he smiled at Emma as he
watched how her eyes looked at his body hungrily.  She wanted him.  This fact
pleased Gavin greatly.

Closing the
distance between them, Gavin joined his wife on the bed.  He stretched out on
top of her, relishing the feeling of her warm, naked body against the length of
his.  His hand cupped Emma’s breast now and she arched against him.  Gavin
brought his lips to her nipple, remembering how much Emma loved it when he
teased her with his tongue.  He palmed her breast while he suckled her nipple,
nipping playfully at the erect peak to drive Emma wild.

She arched against
him, completely consumed with the pleasure of his lips on her nipple.  Gavin’s
love play was exquisite torture.  Emma needed more and she pressed herself
intimately against her husband’s throbbing erection.  She wanted to feel him
inside of her, filling her and stretching her as their bodies joined together.

“Not sae fast,
love.  I want tae take this slow,” he whispered, kissing her breast languidly
and moving his attention to her other breast.  He placed kisses over her
sensitive skin, deliberately avoiding Emma’s nipple to drive her to near madness
with the depths of her desire. 

Emma’s hands were
in his hair and she moaned against him now.

“Gavin!” she
cried.  Her breasts ached for his mouth, yet he teased and tormented her by not
granting her complete pleasure.

“Aye?” he purred,
placing light kisses around her nipple.

“I need you to…”
she trailed off as she writhed against her husband.

“What do ye need,
love?” he asked teasingly, knowing full well what Emma wanted.

“Kiss me,” Emma
begged, arching against Gavin’s erection.

“Here?” he
whispered huskily as he brought his lips slowly down on Emma’s erect nipple. 
He suckled her gently and toyed with her nipple with his tongue.

Emma lost the
ability to respond and raked her fingernails over the skin of Gavin’s muscled
shoulders in response.  Feeling his lips on her sensitive nipple was heavenly.

Gavin skimmed his
fingers over Emma’s slender belly as he continued to play her nipple with his
mouth.  His fingers parted her delicate folds and he growled when he discovered
that she was wet for him.  Emma was more than ready for him to be inside of her
and Gavin’s cock ached with the need to enter her.

“I want ye, love,”
he confessed as his fingers stroked the delicious wetness between Emma’s
thighs.

“I want you too,”
Emma said as she bit her lower lip and looked up at her husband with longing. 
She closed her eyes a lightning bolt of pleasure shot down her spine.  Gavin’s
fingers were like magic against her delicate skin.  He brushed over the nub of
her desire and worked her expertly, sliding his fingers over her silky folds.

Rising up on his
elbows, Gavin took himself firmly in his hand and positioned his cock at the
entrance to Emma’s sheath.

Emma’s breathing
was ragged and she focused her eyes on Gavin’s as he positioned himself to
enter her.  Emma wanted nothing more than to quell the aching desire that her
husband had kindled within her.  She wanted Gavin inside of her.  Now.

“I love you,” Emma
whispered as she looked into Gavin’s eyes.  “Make love to me.”

He smiled down at
her with a look of such love and appreciation that it caused her heart to ache.

“I love ye too,
sweetheart,” he said softly.

Holding eye
contact with his wife, he slid himself into her sheath, inch by delicious inch. 
Gavin growled loudly as he claimed his wife, losing his precarious control as
he seated himself deeply inside of her tight, wet sheath.  His chest heaved
with the exertion that it took to hold himself back.  He wanted to drive into
Emma powerfully, to sink his cock deep inside her womb and spill his seed. 

But Emma’s
pleasure came first. 

Gavin brought his
lips to hers and kissed her gently, relishing how tight she felt as she
surrounded his aching cock.

Emma kissed him
back wantonly, spreading her knees wider to accommodate him and giving him the
erotic pleasure of sinking more deeply inside of her.  Her hand cupped his buttocks
and she pulled him deeper.  Gavin growled and began to move, slowly at first. 
He withdrew his cock slowly and then slid back in to Emma’s heat.

Feeling Emma’s
tightness surround him, Gavin was consumed with the power of their lovemaking. 
He slid his cock powerfully into Emma and he was pleased when she cried out in
pleasure.  He sunk into her again and again, muscles shaking with the intensity
of his need to be closer to his wife.  With each thrust they joined closer
together, their bodies finding a symbiotic rhythm, each seeking to give the
other pleasure and receiving overwhelming pleasure in return.

Gavin took Emma’s
hand in his own, interlacing his fingers with his wife’s as he pinned her hand
to the bed.  He thrust into her powerfully and growled when Emma’s hips rose up
in answer, taking him deeper inside of her.  He arched above Emma and lowered
his lips to her nipple, suckling her sweetly as he withdrew his manhood and
then joined her again.

“Gavin!” Emma
cried out as she grasped his buttocks with her free hand and pulled him deeper
inside of her.  Her breasts were so sensitive.  Feeling his lips and tongue
against the delicate skin of her nipple intensified the exquisite pleasure of
feeling her husband move inside of her.

Emma’s muscles
began to quiver.  Gavin felt the first waves of her release as her sheath
tightened erotically around his member.  He squeezed her hand and continued to
kiss her breasts and tease her erect nipple with his mouth.  Seeking to
pleasure her completely, Gavin slid his hand down over her belly and parted her
delicate folds.  His expert fingers found the nub of her desire and stroked
her, increasing his pressure to coax her release.

Emma felt as
though her body was coming apart at the seams.  She was completely consumed
with the pleasure that her husband was giving her.  She writhed against him and
called out his name again and again.  Gavin’s lips delivered sweet torment to
her breasts.  Her flesh ached with need as his mouth kissed and suckled her
erect nipples, nipping at the sensitive flesh intermittently to shoot lightning
down her spine.

A half scream tore
from Emma’s throat as she felt the first tremor of her orgasm.  Gavin’s finger
stroked her clitoris expertly as he drove into her wetness, arching above her
each time he withdrew his length from her and then driving into her again.  His
lips never left her breasts because he knew that this was the touch that Emma
craved.

Her orgasm was
wild, all consuming.  Emma felt as though she had shattered into a million pieces. 
Pleasure overwhelmed her senses and she clung to her husband as wave after wave
of delicious orgasm racked her body.

Gavin claimed her
lips beneath his and knotted his free hand in her unbound hair.  He could wait
no longer.  Having seen to Emma’s pleasure, he now would take his own.  He
withdrew from her tight, wet sheath; closing his eyes and gritting his teeth in
ecstasy as he felt the tremors of his wife’s orgasm around his shaft.  He drove
into Emma forcefully now, squeezing her hand in his and knotting his fist in
her hair while he kissed her possessively.  Seating himself to the hilt, he
spilled his seed deep within her womb and growled with the power of his
release.  His orgasm came suddenly and he was overwhelmed with the cataclysmic
power of his response to his wife.

Breathing heavily,
Gavin slowed his movements and looked down at his wife.  He supported his
weight on his elbows and brought his lips to hers tenderly, kissing her with
all of the love in his heart.  He traced his fingers lightly over her cheek and
smiled down at her, basking in the afterglow of their Earth-shattering
lovemaking.